Qualcomm shows off quad core 2.5Ghz mobile processor

Damn now this is a major jump. 75 percent less power is crazy but 2012 is still far.

Right when I'm thinking of upgrading and have waited years with my very old cell phone, I hear this. If this is true, I could maybe wait another year, maybe. The Adreno 300 series Graphics are supposed to be on par with Xbox 360/PS3 graphics, stated by Qualcomm. No way this isn't a die shrink/new microarchitecture if its 75% less power and 1200% performance. Even a 2.5 Ghz quad core at 32nm will still eat the crap out of a standard smartphone battery, and Qualcomm is still using 45nm for their dual-core CPU's. Even though it’s a mobile processor there’s no guarantee that it will come to smartphones, that would be awesome if it does though.

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Samples of the processor will begin hitting manufacturers in early 2012.

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Originally posted by KillerBug:

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Samples of the processor will begin hitting manufacturers in early 2012.

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So, this is a theoretical processor that does not exist, and will not exist (even as a prototype) for another year? Here I was almost excited...but it takes FOREVER to go from Samples to retail handsets; we probably won't see tablets with this until late 2012, and smart phones will have to wait to 2013 at least.

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